Revenge In Return; Part 1: The Past; Chapter 1:Something Special

Chapter One: Something Special1

Beep. Beep Beep. Beep Beep Beep. Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeep. Lucy raised her arm and hit the nearest thing to her. The noise stopped. She stared at the clock. 6:30 AM. Saturday Morning. Why was the alarm sounding so early?2

Rolling over, Lucy went back to sleep. She could do with at least another 3 hours; at least. Closing her eyes, the comfort of her bed lulling back to sleep, she heard another annoying sound, the sound of feet running down the hallway outside her bedroom.3

“SHUT UP!” She screamed, “I’m trying to sleep here!”4

The door burst open and her family bundled in laden with packages, envelopes and singing a familiar song: Happy Birthday. Lucy’s heart pounded with excitement. She’d completely forgotten in her tiredness that it was her birthday. Jumping out of bed, she ran over to her parents and grabbed the presents in their arms.5

“Cards first,” her parents reminded her. Their usual birthday rules had already kicked in. Cards first. Presents last. No being antisocial. And then their biggest rule, have fun!6

September 16th 2006. It was her birthday, her fourteenth to be precise. And the alarm had been set for 6:30 because that was the time she was born. Pondering on how she could’ve forgotten that it was her birthday, she began to take the first card out of its envelope. She looked down at it. It was handmade; made of paper and had been decorated with colour pencils. She smiled at it and then read inside7

To a fantabulous sister8

It’s your fifteenth birthday. WOW!9

Hope you have a good one10

Lots of Love11

Stevey12

Xx13

She looked up and smiled at her younger brother. He was seven years old and loved making things. His real name was Steve, but he liked to be called Stevey and it had to be spelt that way!14

“No no no! Look at the back too!” he said eagerly.15

She turned over the card to see the extra:16

Stevey’s Cards ©17

Lucy chuckled, “fantastic, Steve.”18

He smiled back as she opened the next card. This one was much more formal. It was fancy and sparkly and pink. This was most definitely from her parents. And it was. It was full of a sappy poem that she pretended to read. Her parents wouldn’t know the difference. She put the card on top of her brothers and thanked her parents. She opened the rest of the cards from her brother, Lewis, her friends, her long-distance relations and anyone who she knew she wouldn’t see that day.19

She turned eagerly to parents when she experienced the strange feeling of déjà vu but every birthday was different. So how could it have been déjà vu. Although it was a weird feeling, Lucy was easily distracted by the small fortune of presents placed before her. Her parents had a spending limit of £300 for her birthday and she was expecting a lot of the things she had asked for. Her parents knew exactly how to treat her and with what. She launched herself into the piles of presents, opening them all and smiling with glee at each one of them.20

*21

Half an hour later, she opened the last of her twenty-six presents. She had received everything she had asked for; A new mobile, clothes, DVDs, CDs, a game for her PS2 and more. The rest of her family had left the bedroom to go and prepare breakfast. She was trying on some clothes, deciding what she would wear that day when she saw an unopened envelope by the window. Hoping for another card with more money inside, she picked it up and eagerly opened it. But there wasn’t a card inside it. In fact, it wasn’t anything that anyone would ever expect. 22

Surprised, she read what was written on it and when she had finished, dropped it on the floor and fell back onto her bed. Either someone was playing a trick on her, or something terrible was going to happen. She doubted the latter and disregarded it, ready to enjoy the rest of her birthday. Leaving it on the floor, Lucy ran down the stairs to her parents and family to enjoy her buffet of a breakfast not knowing the horror she would be causing to the world.23

*24

After a long tiring day, Lucy returned to her bedroom exhausted. Saying Goodnight to her parents and Lewis (Stevey had already gone to bed, much to his protests) she made her way up the stairs. She carried her presents at the same time and had to walk slowly so she didn't drop them or wake her brother up. It was totally silent, but then she heard voices, voices that she didn't know, coming from behind one of the doors. She creeped towards her room. The floorboards creaked beneath her slightly. She stopped to listen but the voices had stopped. She ran to her room and flung the door open. As she opened it, she thought she saw something white out of the corner of her eye, but there was no-one there.25

Flicking the light on, she put the presents down on the bed. Tired, she went over to the window, glancing nervously behind her. She closed the curtains and then noticed that the envelope was still lying on the floor; its contents lying close by. Picking the contents up again, she examined it more closely. 26

The contents of the envelope had been a leaf. Green and fresh; it looked as if it had only just been picked. It had a smooth waxy coating all over the top apart from where the words had been burnt in. There weren’t that many words, only a fair eleven, but they were all written extremely small.27

Nature Is Bringing The End. The World Is In Your Hands.28

But in the bottom right of the leaf, there was a signature, undistinguishable. It was none that she knew of and it was more of a scribble. It was three loops with a letter T on its side. 29

It was weird. It was different. Most people just signed their names, but it was as if this thing didn’t have a name. She took a closer look at the leaf, turning it over in her hands. There was nothing else on it. She reread the front of a final time.30

Suddenly, there was a large bang from in front of her and the window flew open. A gust of wind blew in and knocked her over. As she hit the floor she screamed and let go of the leaf. It and the envelope flew out the window into the pitch black night. The moon was full and was out, and their silhouettes were visible against it. There were no clouds in the sky so the objects couldn’t get caught behind one of them but somehow, no matter how big they looked to Lucy still, they vanished without a trace. The wind died down but the weird thing was, that throughout the entire encounter, the trees had stayed still and her screams had not been heard. To Lucy, it felt as if the entire moment was unreal, as if it had just been a dream. As if time itself had stopped… for her.31